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Metastable liquids : concepts and principles / Pablo G. Debenedetti.

By: Debenedetti, Pablo G, 1953-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Physical chemistry (Princeton, N.J.): Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 411 p.).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780691213941; 0691213941.Subject(s): Supercooled liquids | Liquids -- Thermal properties | Phase transformations (Statistical physics) | Chemistry, Physical and theoretical | Chemistry, Physical | Liquides -- Propri�et�es thermiques | Liquides surfondus | Transitions de phase | Chimie physique et th�eorique | physical chemistry | SCIENCE -- Physics -- General | Chemistry, Physical and theoretical | Liquids -- Thermal properties | Phase transformations (Statistical physics) | Supercooled liquids | F�isica do estado l�iquido | Termoqu�imica | Estado l�iquido (propriedades t�ermicas) | Mat�eriaux m�etastables | Transitions de phases (physique statistique) | Liquides -- Propri�et�es thermiques | Liquides surfondus | Transitions de phases | Chimie physique et th�eorique | Adam-Gibbs theory | Ginzburg criterion | Kauzmann paradox | Laplace equation | Maxwell construction | antifreeze proteins | beta relaxation | capillarity approximation | critical nucleus | crystallization | detailed balance | dividing surface | embryos | energetics of formation | fragile liquids | free energy barrier | hard sphere fluid | ice | interfacial tension | mean-field theory | non-ergodicity parameter | order parameter | polyamorphism | spinodal curve | structural arrest | supercooled vapors | temperatureGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Metastable liquidsDDC classification: 530.4/2 Other classification: 33.25 | 35.21 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Introduction: Metastable Liquids in Nature and Technology -- Thermodynamics -- Kinetics -- Supercooled Liquids -- Outlook -- Stability of Fluids: Thermodynamic and Mathematical Proofs -- Thermodynamics of Fluid Interfaces -- Definitions of Microscopic and Statistical Quantities.
Review: "Metastable Liquids provides a comprehensive treatment of the properties of liquids under conditions where the stable state is a vapor, a solid, or a liquid mixture of different composition. It examines the fundamental principles that govern the equilibrium properties, stability, relaxation mechanisms, and relaxation rates of metastable liquids. Building on the interplay of kinetics and thermodynamics that determines the thermophysical properties and structural relaxation of metastable liquids, it offers an in-depth treatment of thermodynamic stability theory, the statistical mechanics of metastability, nucleation, spinodal decomposition, supercooled liquids, and the glass transition. Both traditional topics - such as stability theory - and modern developments - including modern theories of nucleation and the properties of supercooled and glassy water - are treated in detail."--Jacket
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1. Introduction: Metastable Liquids in Nature and Technology -- 2. Thermodynamics -- 3. Kinetics -- 4. Supercooled Liquids -- 5. Outlook -- App. 1. Stability of Fluids: Thermodynamic and Mathematical Proofs -- App. 2. Thermodynamics of Fluid Interfaces -- App. 3. Definitions of Microscopic and Statistical Quantities.

"Metastable Liquids provides a comprehensive treatment of the properties of liquids under conditions where the stable state is a vapor, a solid, or a liquid mixture of different composition. It examines the fundamental principles that govern the equilibrium properties, stability, relaxation mechanisms, and relaxation rates of metastable liquids. Building on the interplay of kinetics and thermodynamics that determines the thermophysical properties and structural relaxation of metastable liquids, it offers an in-depth treatment of thermodynamic stability theory, the statistical mechanics of metastability, nucleation, spinodal decomposition, supercooled liquids, and the glass transition. Both traditional topics - such as stability theory - and modern developments - including modern theories of nucleation and the properties of supercooled and glassy water - are treated in detail."--Jacket

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